Hassan al-Turki

Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki (born 1944) was a leader of the Islamic Courts Union during the Somali Civil War.

Biography
Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki was born in 1944 in the Ogaden region of Somalia, and he fought in the Ogaden War against Ethiopia. He later became a financier of terrorism, and in 2004 he was wanted by the United States. He became the Islamic Courts Union commander in Dhobley and took over Jubaland for the ICU. On 27 December 2014 he surrendered to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) after a split with al-Shabaab leader Ahmad Umar.